Reform’s DOGE Unit Being ‘Reworked’ as Council Staff Delay Waste-Cutting Progress – Guido Fawkes

Reform’s DOGE Unit Being ‘Reworked’ as Council Staff Delay Waste-Cutting Progress

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Now-departed Zia Yusuf was heavily involved in the set up of Reform’s roving “Directorate of Government Efficiency” – which held its first meetings with Kent County Council this week. Team lead Nathaniel Fried left along with Zia. The underlying team of data scientists and boffins remains in post and Reform sources say their work is continuing…

Kent County Council’s Reform personnel have also established something called the Department of Local Government Efficiency (DOLGE) which is doing parallel work on waste-cutting. The ex-Zia unit is described as as an “extra tool with innovative data methods and analysis” to help with that work. How many DOGEs does it take to…

Kent Council staff are reportedly delaying the progress of DOGE’s analysis in order to align with complex data and confidentiality agreements though there have been no threats of legal action so far. What have they got to hide?

The central DOGE unit will produce a report into waste-cutting from the council’s huge £2.6 billion budget, which will be handed only to council officials in the first instance thanks to those same data privacy rules. It can then be actioned. Arron Banks is currently the most senior figure associated with the unit as its ‘adviser’…

Reform is meanwhile scouting for a new unit lead. Rework underway…